Pipe cleaning, is it really that straight forward?

[Commander Quan]

Everyone seams to have their own routine. After i'm done smoking I use a Czech tool to cleanout all the loose pieces in the bowl, run a pipe cleaner through through the stem and shank, and then bend the cleaner in half and run it around the inside of the bowl.

I have some rotgut 151 proof vodka that I use to clean the stems on my most used pipes once a month and on the less used pipes when they taste bad. And I do a salt treatment on the pipes as it's needed then it starts to sour. How often you clean your pipes should depend on how often you smoke, and if you are smoking strong tobaccos like englishes, and lighter tobaccos in the same pipe.